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Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

Jean de LaFontaine: From a distance...

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Christina Rossetti: I might show...

Christina Rossetti: I might show...

I might show facts as plain as day:
But since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
Where? What? and turn...

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Christina Rossetti: The downhill path...

Christina Rossetti: The downhill path...

The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.

Source: The Poetical Works...

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Moslih Eddin Saadi: That which is...

Moslih Eddin Saadi: That which is...

That which is not allotted - the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted - will find you wherever you may...

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Martin Tupper: The choicest pleasures...

Martin Tupper: The choicest pleasures...

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Source: In Wisdom...

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Countee Cullen: Your love to...

Countee Cullen: Your love to...

Your love to me was like an unread book . . .

Source: Bright Bindings, The Black...

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Allen Ginsberg: I have a...

Allen Ginsberg: I have a...

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks. . . and think of anything that comes...

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Denise Levertov: Every day, every...

Denise Levertov: Every day, every...

Every day, every day I hear
enough to fill
a year of nights with wondering.


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Anne Sexton: In a dream...

Anne Sexton: In a dream...

In a dream you are never eighty.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Edith Sitwell: I'm patient with...

Edith Sitwell: I'm patient with...

I'm patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

Source: In...

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Thomas Campbell: The popularity of...

Thomas Campbell: The popularity of...

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the...

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Alexander Pope: To err is...

Alexander Pope: To err is...

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Source: An Essay on Criticism.
-- Alexander...

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Alexander Pope: A vast, vamped...

Alexander Pope: A vast, vamped...

A vast, vamped future, old, revived new piece.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk i. 284
--...

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Alexander Smith: Love is but...

Alexander Smith: Love is but...

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

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George Gordon Byron: Letter writing is...

George Gordon Byron: Letter writing is...

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Source:...

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George Gordon Byron: Truth is always...

George Gordon Byron: Truth is always...

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Robert Browning: The aim, if...

Robert Browning: The aim, if...

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life:
Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to...

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Samuel Beckett: I have my...

Samuel Beckett: I have my...

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Source: The...

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Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Alexandre Dumas, fils: Business? it's quite...

Business? it's quite simple: it's other people's money.

Source: Giraud, in La...

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August Wilson: She's just using...

August Wilson: She's just using...

She's just using him to keep from being by herself. That's the worst use of a man you can...

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